Peppermint Candy Decor

Although I am still very much in the Thanksgiving mood, I am thinking and planning ahead for Christmas.

I decided to decorate two Christmas trees this year. One will be our more traditional tree with ornaments that we have collected over the years and have more meaning to us as a family, the second will be themed.

I asked you on Instagram which theme you thought I should go with and candy cane won!

So I have been busy creating and collecting peppermint items and accessories to adorn my themed tree.

Two pieces I decided to make myself were an ornament and a decoration.

The ornament is filled with round, peppermint candies and topped off with a red and white ribbon.

Ingredients:

• large plastic clear ornament (mine is 5 inches big, but you just want to make sure the candy can fit through the opening)

• round, peppermint candies

• red and white grosgrain ribbon

• sharp scissors

• hot glue gun

Instructions:

1. Remove the cap from the ornament and fill with unwrapped peppermint candies. I filled mine about 1/3 of the way.

2. Replace the cap and cut a ribbon on the diagonal to keep it from fraying and to give it a polished look.

3. Hot glue the two ends of the ribbon together to secure and hang the ornament.

The second decoration I made was these large and medium sized peppermint candies that I will add to the tree to give it more dimension.

Ingredients:

• round, wood discs in two different sizes

• pencil

• ruler

• red, white, and pink craft paint

• foam brushes

Instructions:

1. Take one disc at a time, your ruler, and pencil and draw a straight line going down the center of the circle. Turn the disc 90 degrees and draw another line down the center.

2. Draw two more lines splitting the different between the other lines you have already drawn. You will end up with eight equal pieces drawn on the circles.

3. Using your foam brush, start with one section and one color. Note: For the smaller discs I used red, white, and pink. For the larger discs I only used red and white because it is my main color scheme.

4. If you choose two colors, you will paint every other piece of the pie white or red respectively. If you choose three colors, I painted the pieces of the pie across from one another the same color. For example I started with white, then did red, then finished with pink. You will end up with 4 white pieces of pie, and two red and two pink pieces of pie.